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Why the Boo.comeback makes sense

November 28, 2006

There has been much dis­cus­sion lately, most of it neg­a­tive (you can read more com­ments on Tech­no­rati), about the come­back of boo.com and once again, I find myself on the oppo­site side of the shared wis­dom. Before I go into rea­sons as to why I think a come­back by Boo.com (a boo.comeback?) makes sense, let me first go into my […]

On the WordPress move

May 29, 2006

After many years of using my own blog soft­ware, some­thing I had writ­ten myself and tended to over the years, I finally threw the towel in and decided to upgrade. Here are a few things that I learned in the process. Mak­ing the Deci­sion The first, and prob­a­bly tough­est, part of this migra­tion was to actu­ally make the jump. […]

MacWorld 2004: What was NOT said

January 6, 2004

Every year, mac users await announce­ment of excit­ing new soft­ware and hard­ware prod­uct. Last year, Steve Jobs impressed the com­put­ing indus­try by unveil­ing a cou­ple of new lap­tops (the 12 and 17 inch Power­Books) and offer­ing a truck­load of new soft­ware pack­ages. This year’s keynote, how­ever, was more sig­nif­i­cant for what was not said that what was. Much […]

AOL-Microsoft Settlement: The Future

May 30, 2003

AOL and Microsoft have announced an end to their feud. It seems to me that there is a lot in there that needs to be dis­sected and pon­dered about. It will impact the devel­op­ment of the Inter­net for years to come. IM : One of the con­di­tions for the AOL/Time Warner merger was that AOL open its […]

Disruptive Technology

April 22, 2003

Bright­hand reports about a new piece of soft­ware that allows to make calls using a Pocket PC and a Wi-Fi card. This is an inter­est­ing devel­op­ment that could turn Wi-Fi into a very dis­rup­tive tech­nol­ogy for the mobile phone indus­try and may explain why com­pa­nies like T-mobile are plac­ing bets on the phe­nom­e­non, cov­er­ing them­selves in case other revenues […]

AIM Not Secure

February 23, 2001

In the past few years, AIM has become a com­mu­ni­ca­tion tool used by both indi­vid­u­als and cor­po­ra­tions to facil­i­tate dis­cus­sions of issues rang­ing from what movie to see on the week­end to arcane details in con­trac­tual cor­po­rate nego­ti­a­tions. But buyer beware as hack­ers have found ways to exploit the AIM client and server to leave such […]

From Scandinavia With Love

September 17, 2000

I was recently speak­ing at a con­fer­ence called Escan­di­navia 2000, which cov­ered the state of the Inter­net in Scan­di­navia. Dur­ing that con­fer­ence, I had a chance to speak to a num­ber of peo­ple about the state of wire­less in the Scan­di­na­vian coun­tries. Here’s what I’ve learned and how it can help those of you who are work­ing in the […]

Challenging WAP?

May 28, 2000

As reg­u­lar read­ers of this newslet­ter know, I’ve been look­ing a fair amount at how to get unteth­ered from the Inter­net lately. While I have played with a wire­less Palm and looked at WAP, there seemed to be some­thing miss­ing to the whole uncon­nected Inter­net issue. What I came to real­ize is that what works for a com­puter does not necessarily […]

Boo.com Goes Bust

May 19, 2000

As many of you may have heard already, Boo, the com­pany for which I used to work, has closed its doors. I’ve been look­ing at the press cov­er­age and it seems that some of the cov­er­age does not work out. For starters, Boo.com’s fail­ure is not an exam­ple of why B2C E-commerce will fail, it’s an example […]

AOL’s dark little secret

March 20, 2000

Deep within AOL’s infra­struc­ture sits a new piece of soft­ware which could bridge the gap between the inter­net and the desktop.